Work in Sports Newsletter vol 44
PointsBet Featured Job, Underdog Fantasy Company Profile, and Top/New Pro jobs of the week!
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Overview
In the last week, we’ve added over 20 new jobs to our job board with more being added each day! This week, our featured job is a Release Manager role with PointsBet, and we break down Underdog Fantasy from a hiring perspective. Top & New jobs this week come from Tagboard, The Action Network, William Hill Race & Sports Books, DraftKings, Rush Street Interactive, Better Collective, FanDuel, Simplebet, WynnBET and more!
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Weekly Jobs Recap
Top Jobs viewed last week on Openly Jobs
Product Manager @ Tagboard (view here)
Social Media Manager @ The The Action Network (view here)
Assistant Director of Sports Partnerships @ William Hill Race & Sports Books (view here)
Associate Account Manager, Brand Partnership @ DraftKings (view here)
Marketing Business Intelligence Data Analyst @ Rush Street Interactive (view here)
Top NEW jobs on Openly Jobs
Partnerships Manager @ Better Collective (view here)
Analyst, Marketing Models @ FanDuel (view here)
Licensing Manager @ Simplebet (view here)
Digital Marketing Associate @ The Action Network (view here)
Project Manager @ WynnBET (view here)
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Organization Hiring Profile
Organization: Underdog Fantasy
Industry: Fantasy Sports
Location: Brooklyn NY
# of Openings: 9
# of Employees: 64
Category of open roles: Admin, Android Engineering, Backend Engineering, Compliance, Data Engineering, Web Engineering
Featured Job: Senior iOS Engineer - Apply below
Featured Job of the Week
Release Manager
Organization: PointsBet
Location: Denver, CO
Overview: PointsBet continues to take the sports betting world by storm, the company will continue to bring proprietary and best-in-market technology, modernized and premium brand mentality, expert trading practices and proven growth marketing strategies to emerging sports betting markets
Track the scope of sprint-based software deployments across multiple geographical locations
Communicate upcoming release windows and assist tech and product teams in planning releases
Be accountable for the quality of releases through deployment planning to ensure component versions, their dependencies, and deployment steps are accurately captured
Empower the team to adhere to well defined change management and release processes
Communicate with the following stakeholders to ensure release scopes, timelines, and progress are accurately understood by all senior management, IT development stream leads, QA, Product managers, DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers
Co-ordinate resources for performing deployments during planned release windows
Assist in the construction and execution of run sheets for large complex releases
Why we like it?
PointsBet boats partnerships with NBC, the PGA TOUR, MLB, Chicago Bears, Colorado Avalanche, Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons, Detroit Red Wings, Indiana Pacers, Indianapolis Colts, and more. This development position puts the potential candidate in a fast-growing firm with an environment that is rewarding, fun and challenging. This position could be an instrument for both personal and professional growth as PointsBet continues to become a major force in the newly legalized US Sports Betting market.
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